Other E-Discussions Out There

This is a blog for commercial lawyers. Three other blogs (or rather, one blog and two discussion lists) help keep us well-informed and deserve a plug.

First, there’s a new North American blog based at Harvard, entitled New Private Law: Project on the Foundations of Private Law. Started brilliantly and promises well. Go to http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/nplblog/

Second, the Association of American Law Schools’ AALS Contracts listserv. Mainly US, but some English and European input too. A listserv is essentially an email exchange facility. If you have a thought, you send it to their composite email address (aalscontracts@lists.umn.edu) and it automatically goes to all subscribers. Long threads can build up. You have to be a subscriber to participate. To become one, send an email to listserv@lists.umn.edu with just the wording SUBSCRIBE AALSCONTRACTS in the message body. Enquiries to the list owner at aalscontracts-request@lists.umn.edu. You get a steady trickle of emails, which occasionally becomes a gush when something sexy comes up.

Third, there’s the Obligations Discussion Group (ODG). Also a listserv; same principles as above. Run by the excellent Prof Jason Neyers at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. English and Commonwealth predominantly; some US. Intelligent, informal and fun. To join, contact Jason Neyers at jneyers@uwo.ca. A bit like London buses: you can go a long time with nothing at all and then your inbox gets deluged with argument for a few hours.

Andrew Tettenborn

24.09.2015

Sketty, Swansea, Swansea, UK

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Professor Andrew Tettenborn joined Swansea Law School and the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law in 2010 having previously taught at the universities of Exeter (Bracton Professor of Law 1996-2010), Nottingham and Cambridge. Professor Tettenborn is a well-known scholar both in common law and continental jurisdictions. He has held visiting positions at Melbourne University, the University of Connecticut and at Case Law School, Cheveland, Ohio. He is author and co-author of books on torts, damages and maritime law, and of numerous articles and chapters on aspects of common law, commercial law and restitution.

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